Didn't UAC Prompte For Password
May 27, 2008
I was logged into a standard user account yesterday and I needed a file in my Administrator account so I accessed the folder by going to to C:UsersMy Account. UAC prompted me for a password and I accessed the file just fine. Today I needed another file and used the same process. However this time it didn't prompt me for a password as I expected it would and let me straight into the Administrator account documents!
Once I had opened the Admin doucments the first time it had been automatically set with permissions. I solved it by removing the permissions from the security tab, but I assumed anytime you wanted to access files from an Admin account through a Standard account it would require a password. Is there something I'm missing here or is this Vista? Seems like a pain to have to remove permissions everytime you access a file like this.
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